La Grande evening observer., June 07, 1916, Image 4

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LA GRANDE EVENING OBSERVER
WEDNESDAY, JUNE 7, 1916.
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shine brilliantly. ,
Kitchener had no faults as minister
of war. His genius for organization
did immense service for his country.
But when the effort wan made to
combine the responsibilities of war
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KITCHENER GREAT, BUT HE
..' BLUNDERED.
even a man of Kitchener's iron char
acter must not trespass.
Lord Kitchener was one of the great
personalities of the war, and the af
fection of the British people for hini
was unique. His title of Kitchener of
Khartoum was abbreviated into "K.
of K.," while to the man of the street
he was known as "Good old Kitch
ener." ' Popular trust in him was
based on the fact that he personified
to the British: people all the tenacity
and . bulldog stubbornness . of tliei.
race. ' ,
WHEN MEN WILL FIGHT.
Men of Lord Kitchener's type are
few and far between, yet his memory :
will stand as proof that even great '
men blunder. During the present war ' There ttre time8 when men bandel!
the English chief of staff blundered ether as nations will fight to the
repeatedly, and on one or two oc- death and can keep them
casions the blunder was collossal. ?J? lt- .
But there was oartial excuse for ir: 1 lnBle a,e "mua wnen yu cun y
The first great blunder he made was
in not sending the proper munitions
to Flanders and to Northern Franco
when the war first broke out. He
would not Ire convinced but that his
selection of ammunition was the
proper one, and England failed miser
ably aa a consequence. But he did do
a magnificent service to England. 1
Present generations, know of his In
dia career, but it was not known to
the casual reader just why he blun
dered so often in his Great "War or
ders. He tried to do too much. A
La Grande citizen yesterday re
marked, when told of the war minis
ter's untimely deuth, that Britain will
Buffer less through his death now.
than a few months, or a year, ago.
He was eminently right. Kitchener
attempted too much. The disaster at
Kut, and the Gallipoli campaign were
other instances where K. , of K.
blundered.
During the past yeur Lord, Kitch
ener's responsibilities have been grad
ually curtailed, until at the timo of
Ilia death he had little control over the
strategy of the war and was engaged
nlmost exclusively in matters "of or
ganization. The British empire owes a large
debt of gratitude to Kitchener for the
manner in which he recruited men
during the first months of the war,
but he was allowed to take too much
power in his own hands und it was
due to this fact that he has been re
sponsible in a large measure for the
comparatively small accomplishments
of the British 'urmy since the battlo of
the Manic.
When tho war began, Groat Britain
was very short of officers, and mem
bers of the general staff in London
wore transferred to field duty. Lord
Kitchonor took upon his own shoul
dors tho burdon ; of directing Gront
JJntains military strategy as well as
to men Fighting will cost you all the
treasures you have; will leave you in
debt mountain high, and pile up debt
on the nation to be paid by you, your
children and your children's children
for generations to come,'' and men will
answer. We know it, but we will fight
anyhow. .
There are times when you can say
to men War rr.ii.ns fighting and
righting means death; you go to war
and you and yours arc likely to die,
and men will answer. Yes, we know,
and we will die fighting.
There are times when you can say
to mothers. 'If you send your sons
to war, they must face bullets, and
bullets mean death; off they go, they
go to their death, and the mothers
will say We want them to go.
It is for a great principle that
mothers give their sons and sons give
their lives; it is when the life of the
nation is at stake that the life of the
individual is so freely given.
In this great war, why is it that
England says she must fight on till
Bhe with Russia and France win a vic
tory? The one cry now is that Car
man militarism must be crushed.
And Germany in turn declares that.
th.
We ve Taken a Firm Stand on
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the many sidedness of the idea they
are voicing.
If children are the hope of the
if needs he she will sacrifice every son world, the world is in a sense the hope
to save the nation.
THE KIGHTS OF CHILDREN.
the
the
"Children," says a writer in
London Times, "are the hope of
world."
The idea isn't a bit new. It ha3
been expressed millions of time
since man began to think and to utter
his thoughts ii the symbols of speech.
Just now the idea is being ro-dis-covorcd
not only in London buc in
Berlin, Paris, Vienna, Belgrade and
pretty much everywhere e'se the
European war area. And it is being
re-uttered in America.
It is one of those undobntable state-
the work of organizing tho empire's ments, this assertion that "Children
volunteer army. No man could do are the hope of the world." Thou
both these duties successfully, and sands repeat it with little thought of
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of the children, their heritage in suc
cession to their progenitors. For
this it is clear that even the millions
yet to be born have rights which de
serve both respect and conservation
from the men and women already
here.
Jt is conceded tha'. "every child
has a right to be wall-born." for the
child born to a heritage of disease is
not an asset but a liability to the
world. Similarly, every child may
icnsonably be said to have an inher
ent right to be born into as good a
world as it is possible to make out of
the materials at hand. And this
volves a lot of responsibilities to be
met by those human beings already
in occupancy of the world.
Among these ore better social, fin
ancial, governmental, educational, re
ligious and other conditions.
Even the most casual survey re
veals tremendous tasks ahead if the
coming millions are not to be denied
their inalienable rights, tasks enough
tc busy. all energies for some cen
turies to come.
- And the best of it is that in efforts
to give every child its full rights in J
these respects we're conferring im
mediate favors on ourselves.
A fellow who has a garden is most
likely to find himself wishing it had
been as hard for his fond parent to
find a shingle around as it is when
one is needed to protect the tomato
plants.
' President Wilson thinks some men
should be knocked down for the good
of their soul, but the reformer wants
to be big enough to do it before he
tries it.
COLONEL WOOD AND TEDDY
A news scene stood out upon the
canvas at Chicago yesterday when
Roosevelt let it be Known that he
the O.-W. to take our girls to the
Rose show. A pretty courtesy that
the entire city appreciates.
Mr. Bryan wants to write the Dem
ocratic platform, says an exchnnste
,x, 4 j .. i ue lurwu 10 nine Lionel wood as
L V - T 1 Riming , prcsi(iont his election would mean that
the obvious?
Occasionally a word from Mexico
WOM s.mnnvt fnlnnol T0,.,1 VnnA I .!. ! K ,m WUr SP'
Vu li t- -Tr . in,,' i across xne Doraer.
with nil his might if the Reupblieans ' .
should choose Wood as their standard! Wuii ..1,1 ,7- u- j
bearer. That must have thrown a b! ' !l I ,r
thrill into the nll o-nnrH fnr tho ' beer Pow"er into La Grande and
guard or "the "stanat" e em n s ZFfA-"1?
plainly in charge of every detail of t0 the Jal1 sentence and n"e posed.
the Chicago convention. This would ; n-, '. . . '' ,
also indicate that Hughes is not sat-! , .e- m?vn.,of Kitchener
isfactory to Col. Roosevelt which will ,m(1 n,s.staff, while an act on the pro
mean very likely that Hughes will not ! flf ,of r, is nevertheless a world
bo nominated. Should the old guard i n -?edy , d Klte!1e!ler had boen in
...... c.iit bni.iuiii,i;icu af.
much active duty that he ceased
Flies can hatch faster than human
beings can swat, says an exchange.
Try a swatter in each hand from now
on.
Tom Edison slept only seven hours
in fifteen days. There must have
been one of his phonographs' in his
neighborhood.
Wasn't it just like a compositor to
make the singer before a smoker of
men in the lumber trade a "sliver
toned" tenor?
A fashion note says cutaway coats
are coming in to a limited extent. To
which same- extent, formerly, they
went back.
the job hunters would have no ,.nn tn iT' oe 01 interest merely to his own
rely upon, for Wood is a military man : ountrv to wi?'ch he rendered service,
and a whimpering, begging mollv- 1 but was .an interesting character to
coddle offlcer-saeker would not look 1 ev7 ""Vl " fhe e ?be
good to him ' xhc t:llent and intelligence of Ger-
That scene on the Chicago canvas ' I'.'3"7. tf'laY doubt deeply regrets
may refuse to dissolve. In fact it is t,lat,fa e should have decreed Kiteh-'
worth watching. 1 ,eners death, while at the same time
rejoicing in the wonderful success of
In the death of Albert W ,.. i "1?,..German W s-vstm- Kitchener's
other good Grande Ronde citizen has ' f y r0ra Wa? f-untl ta, aP-neal
SmMtm
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passed on. He, too, had seen the val
ley blossom as a rose under the tam
ing hand of civilization and to his
credit be it said he assisted materially
in making the physical transforma
tion ot this portion of Oregon.
The guilty do trmnblo when th
grand jury meets, but he whn ti
clean hands can walk 'hononth tho
day sun and exchange courtesies with
uie jurors witn no reeling of anxiety.
An extra Pullman is being used by
to every German high in Tank.
England will not recoup from this
sensational bit of war news quicklv.
Her people will feel this most vital
single blow of the war for a long
time. It will reouira some careful
consideration to fill Lord Kitchener's
i place and fill it in a way that will
j biing results at the same time satis-
tying the military arm of England
and the people as a whole.
Whoever said forewarned is fore
armed never heard of an American.
Congress.
WHERE WILL IT STRIKE?
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